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History for January 10

History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Ethan Allen 1738, Walter Hill 1941 - Movie director, Jim Croce 1943 - Musician


Rod Stewart 1945 - Singer, George Foreman 1949 - Boxer, Pat Benatar (Pat Andrzejewski) 1953 - Singer


1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.


1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.


1901 - Oil was discovered at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, TX.


1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.


1963 - The Chicago Cubs became the first baseball club to hire an athletic director. He was Robert Whitlow. (MLB)

1984 - The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.


1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.


2003 - North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.

How DID NBC get access to Top Secret Russian hacking report? | Conservative Byte

How DID NBC get access to Top Secret Russian hacking report? | Conservative Byte:

"President-Elect Donald Trump wants to know how NBC got hold of the Top Secret report on the supposed hacking of the election by Russia. They had access to the report before Mr. Trump received his briefing. He finds this totally unacceptable and wants Congress to investigate. Look at the list of suspects in this article."

Making (Me and) America Sick Again

Articles: Making (Me and) America Sick Again:
"Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic party cohorts are flailing against the likelihood that Obama’s signature screw-up, ObamaCare, will be repealed

As Dilbert creator Scott Adams notes, apparently on the advice of the satire site, the Onion, they have adopted the fighting words “Make America Sick Again”. 

Actually Obama and his party, with the aid of what Instapundit has dubbed “democratic operatives with bylines” continue to make me sick of their lies and distortions of truth.

As for the death of ObamaCare, if past is prologue -- and with these folks it is -- we can expect the press will flood us with sob stories, because in a nation chock full of feelers, emotive accounts are more compelling than economics and logic. Remember when they were working our heartstrings to get it passed?

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter probably deserved a blue ribbon for her tale of a constituent who couldn’t afford dentures and had to use her dead sister’s as an example of why we needed ObamaCare (which incidentally doesn’t include dental coverage).

Sob stories are not the only way Obama’s administration “contorts reality “and masks”  “the consequences of its initiatives” says Victor Davis Hanson in an article well worth reading in its entirety. 

After outlining its many deceits, Hanson says why they do this:

Obama advanced an agenda to the left of that shared by most past presidents. Obamacare, the Benghazi catastrophe, the Iran deal, his strange stance toward radical Islam, and the Bergdahl swap were unpopular measures that required politically-driven recalibrations to escape American scrutiny.

Second, Obama’s team believes that the goals of fairness and egalitarianism more than justify the means of dissimulation by more sophisticated elites. Thus Gruber (“the stupidity of the American voter”) and Rhodes (“They literally know nothing”) employ deception on our behalf. Central to this worldview is that the American people are naive and easily manipulated, and thus need to be brought up to speed by a paternal administration that knows what is best for its vulnerable and clueless citizenry.

Such condescension is also why the administration never believes it has done anything wrong by hiding the facts of these controversies. Its players believe that because they did it all for us, the ensuing distasteful means will be forgotten once we finally progress enough to appreciate their enlightened ends.

This week, two incidents come to mind: the Chicago torture revelations and the claims about the Russians hacking our election. In both cases, once again, the Democratic handmaidens of the press played what helpful role they could.

The Chicago Torture Case...
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Flint beats winter blues with 'healing' Native American drumming ceremony

Flint beats winter blues with 'healing' Native American drumming ceremony | MLive.com:
"FLINT, MI -  The pounding of gongs and drums reverberated through Blue Lotus Healing Center in Flint as Strongheart Drum Medicine's Ool Pardi led the crowd in meditation on Saturday, Jan. 7.
The healing center's Native American drumming event packed the house and cleared the minds of dozens, featuring ayurvedic tea and mantras for participants.
The event, meant to "spiritually heal," according to its Facebook page, highlighted the drumming of local musician Ool Pardi.
See video of part of the ceremony below."

Dana Loesch joins Megyn Kelly on the final episode of The Kelly File to discuss defunding Planned Parenthood – TheBlaze

Dana Loesch joins Megyn Kelly on the final episode of The Kelly File to discuss defunding Planned Parenthood – TheBlaze:

"Loesch corrected him, explaining that there are exceptions in the Hyde Amendment that allow tax dollars to be used for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or health of the mother. She went on to remind Fowler that Planned Parenthood had to pay a $4 million settlement because they over-billed some state Medicaid agencies.

“In 2015, Cecile Richards was forced to admit before Congress that, in fact, Planned Parenthood makes a lot of money off of abortions, and abortions account for 85 percent of their non-government revenue,” Loesch said. “Why are American taxpayers being forced to fund a for-profit business that gives 99 percent to Democrats?”"

Feinstein in '06: 'Democrats Support the Border Fence'

Feinstein in '06: 'Democrats Support the Border Fence' | The Weekly Standard:
"Republicans plan to use a 2006 border security law supported by more than half of Senate Democrats to fund the wall President-elect Donald Trump pledged his administration would construct, Politico reported Thursday.
The Secure Fence Act mandated double-layer fencing between particular ports of entry from just east of San Diego all the way to the southern tip of Texas, totaling hundreds upon hundreds of miles.
The language was amended in a 2007 appropriations bill to provide the Homeland Security Department discretion to choose the nature and type of the barrier, and to require simply that 700 miles of it be established, regardless of where.
Republican lawmakers and immigration hawks once decried the changes for effectively "gutting" the original measure.
But with Trump to take office and the GOP to continue its congressional majority, the lack of constraints could empower the new White House to call for whatever kind of wall it wants, however long it wants it to be.
Many Democrats may rue the day, if only because of their pending political discomfort for supporting the 2006 legislation.
None other than Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, as well as Sens. Tom Carper, Dianne Feinstein, Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, and Ron Wyden, were among the 26 Senate minority backers of the Fence Act. 
..."Democrats are solidly behind controlling the border, and we support the border fence," she said, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
"We've got to get tough on the border.
There's no question the border is a sieve."
Then-Senate minority leader Harry Reid echoed her: "Democrats are for border security," he was quoted as saying plainly. 
"And when the roll is called you'll find Democrats on that roll..."

HENCE, TRUMP: Virtue-Signaling SJW Leftist San Francisco CEO Tweets to Middle America:

HENCE, TRUMP: Virtue-Signaling SJW Leftist San Francisco CEO Tweets to Middle America: Stop being a …:
HENCE, TRUMP: 
Virtue-Signaling SJW Leftist San Francisco CEO Tweets to Middle America: Stop being a Sh*thole full of Stupid People:

Future dictionary editions will include the above tweet in their definition of oikophobia.

Lunch video-RIGHT ANGLE: TROLLING THE SJWs They have temper tantrums when triggered. Steve Green says, trigger away!

Noon-toon

Russian official: Pres. Obama undermined the American democracy, not Putin or Moscow – TheBlaze

Russian official: Pres. Obama undermined the American democracy, not Putin or Moscow – TheBlaze:

"In the wake of a report from the United States intelligence community that says Russia intentionally tried to undermine the American democracy through hacking the 2016 presidential election, a top Russian politician is firing back, arguing that the only person to undermine the American democracy in recent years is President Barack Obama."

CBS radio report created the impression Chicago torture victim was a black man assaulted by white Trump supporters

Blog: CBS radio report created the impression Chicago torture victim was a black man assaulted by white Trump supporters:
"This may be the single most despicable act of media bias I have ever encountered.  It took a lot of effort and art for CBS Radio to put together an early report on the Chicago torture incident that was strictly factual, yet created the impression on listeners that a group of white Trump supporters had attacked a helpless mentally challenged black man.  Mediaite provides a transcript of what was reported last Thursday morning by a top-of-the hour broadcst distributed to radio stations across the country.

In the brief Thursday morning report– which attracted attention when a listener posted the clip on Reddit Friday– here’s how CBS characterized the attack:

"The viral video of a beating and knife attack in Chicago suggests the assault had racial overtones. CBS’s Dean Reynolds tells us the victim is described as a mentally-challenged teenager.

In the video he is choked and repeatedly called the n-word. His clothes are slashed and he is terrorized with a knife. His alleged captors repeatedly reference Donald Trump. Police are holding four people in connection with the attack. [Emphasis added by Mediaite]"

The report is technically correct, but widely misleading. By noting the attackers used the n-word during a racially-motivated attack while “referencing” Donald Trump, the clear implication is that the victim was black and his attackers were racist Trump fans.

...Now consider for a moment how difficult it must have been for CBS News employees to make themselves bulletproof (in their minds, at least) by being factual, yet create a counterfactual message in the minds of its listeners. This is the sort of lying that takes skill and practice..."
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When will ‘The Pause’ in global temperature return?

When will ‘The Pause’ in global temperature return? | Watts Up With That?
"Another year, another failure of global warming to occur at even half the rate originally predicted by IPCC in 1990.

CO2 emissions have increased at a rate somewhat above the high-end prediction made in IPCC’s First Assessment Report. 

In 2013 our sins of emission totaled 10.8 billion tonnes of carbon; in 2014 the official estimate, in the annual paper published by le Quéré et al., was 10.9 billion tonnes:

It is debatable whether the true rate of emissions growth is anything like as small as 0.1 billion tonnes of carbon per year, given that China and now India are bringing coal-fired power stations onstream at a record rate. 
But the official storyline is that emissions growth has all but stopped. 

Nevertheless, emissions remain a very long way above any of IPCC’s CO2-stabilization scenarios.

...Yet the rate of global warming since 1990 – the most important of the “broad-scale features of climate change” that the models were supposed to predict – is now below half what the IPCC had then predicted..."

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A Reader Compares The Syrian War To Everyday Violence In “Liberated” South Africa

A Reader Compares The Syrian War To Everyday Violence In “Liberated” South Africa | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
"From: Mike [Email him]

I have just seen stats on the civilian deaths in Syria–16,913 civilians according to the “Syrian Network For Human Rights.”

But wait a minute, there is a war going on there. 
Look at the civilian deaths in South Africa: 18,673 civilians. 
And climbing at 5% per year. [South Africa’s murder rate rises to over 50 people killed per day, Agence France-Presse, September 3, 2016]   
Some investigation is needed to find the real war!

James Fulford writes: Because South Africa has more than twice the population of Syria, their murder rate is not quite as bad as a full scale war.

It’s still really, really, really, bad. For example the entire country has twice the murder rate of Chicago, and some parts of South Africa have triple the murder rate of Chicago. You could also compare it to England:

In 1998, the late Christopher Hitchens wrote that

“Most “advanced” countries in the world have abolished capital punishment. In order to be a fully signatory nation of the Council of Europe, for example, you have to show that you have wiped it from your book of statutes. The very first act of the Constitutional Court of liberated South Africa was to abolish the penalty of death.”

Reading that in 2015, I was forced to ask “Really? Was that a clever idea?”

This chart of murders dating back to 1915 suggests the whole liberation thing may not have been a clever idea–the spike is right where you’d expect it.

Arizona lawmaker introduces bill to ban taxpayer funds for social justice classes – TheBlaze

Arizona lawmaker introduces bill to ban taxpayer funds for social justice classes – TheBlaze:

"An Arizona State legislator is doing something no one has thus far had the courage to do at the federal level — he’s introduced legislation to ban the use of taxpayer money to fund overt social justice coursework in state schools.

Rep. Bob Thorpe, who represents a rural Arizona district and is a member of the state’s Government and Higher Education Committees, has introduced legislation that seeks to deny funding for class that “violates civil rights laws” or “promotes division or resentment”"

FAKE NEWS: AOL attempts to link U.S. House relic from 1842 to 'Nazi symbol'

FAKE NEWS: AOL attempts to link U.S. House relic from 1842 to 'Nazi symbol' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
“Fake news” is indeed alive and well in the United States — and it resides on the “news” site of AOL.

AOL News attempted to swing for the fences on Friday by trying to link U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s logo — which features the ceremonial mace created in 1842 — to the emblem of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Here’s what AOL published yesterday, claiming Ryan’s logo had a “stark resemblance to Nazi symbol”:

But that big swing turned into a huge whiff, as Ryan’s logo features the Speaker’s mace, a ceremonial object used when the House is in session.

The mace precedes the Speaker’s entrance into the chamber, and can also be used to silence a member out of order.

Here it is:

The original mace, which had been in use since the founding of the House of Representatives, was burned by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812.

But to AOL News, it’s just proof Paul Ryan loves Nazis. Never mind the U.S. relic predates Hitler’s reign by some 90 years.

Thankfully, the “news” site conceded the similarity is “likely…just a coincidence…”

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History for January 9

History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Simone de Beauvoir 1908, Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913, Fernando Lamas 1915


Bart Starr 1934 - Football player, Bob Denver 1935, Crystal Gayle 1951


1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.


1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.


1905 - In Russia, the civil disturbances known as the Revolution of 1905 forced Czar Nicholas II to grant some civil rights.


1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.


1936 - The United States Army adopted the semi-automatic rifle.


1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.


1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.


2002 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.

Now Obama is Blaming Democrats for Healthcare Fail | Fox Business

Now Obama is Blaming Democrats for Healthcare Fail | Fox Business:

"At a town hall event with Vox Media, Obama acknowledged the politics have been stacked against his reforms, mainly blaming Republicans who he said refused to help make legislative fixes to Obamacare, which provides subsidies for private insurance to lower-income Americans who do not have healthcare plans at work.

But Obama also said Liberals like former Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders had contributed to the program's unpopularity."

MEANWHILE, WOMEN ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, THE BENEFICIARIES OF 50 YEARS OF FEMINISM, DEMAND “SAFE SPACE…

MEANWHILE, WOMEN ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, THE BENEFICIARIES OF 50 YEARS OF FEMINISM, DEMAND “SAFE SPACE…:
"Female Kurdish fighters announce new training academies for Arab women to take on Isis in Syria.

2016 saw women’s participation in the fight greatly expand, Ms Abdullah said, with the formation of several new military councils designed to encourage the participation of freed Arab and Yazidi women across both Syria and Iraq.

In Manbij in particular, female residents were so inspired by the female YPJ soldiers who helped liberate them they have created their own all-female battalion to retake the neighbouring town of al-Bab.

Two units have now completed training for battle inside the umbrella Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition, Ms Abdullah said, and both a military training academy and college-style institution were being set up for 2017.

“Arab people were the predominant residents of the liberated areas. They were impressed when they saw that women participated in military affairs and played a leading role in clashes. This had important consequences…. From Shaddadi to Manbij, many women have joined us,” she said.

Good"

New York City needs Hillary Clinton to run for mayor

New York City needs Hillary Clinton to run for mayor | New York Post:
"It seems unlikely — but the idea’s been floating around for several days now, and so far she’s not rejecting it. 
For what it’s worth, Secretary Clinton, we’d love to see you run for mayor.
New York City needs you.
Yes, we were highly critical of Hillary Clinton in the runup to Election Day.
But that was the race for the White House, where she offered a program far to the left of the nation’s center.
Not so in New York, where she’d be dead-center in the city’s Democratic majority.
Progressive, but not obsessed with proving it — nor with trying to use the mayoralty to become a national leader.
Passionate for social justice, but not an ideologue who’ll stick by homeless or affordable-housing policies that are clearly failing.
Above all else, she’d actually focus on doing the job.
Clinton is a famously diligent worker — one who shows up on time and puts in the hours.
And New York needs a mayor who’ll run herd on city government.
...What’s in it for her? 
Well, her presidential run shows her appetite for continued public service.
And while Gracie Mansion isn’t the White House, it’s no consolation prize:
New York’s mayor is famously “the second-toughest job in America” — and you traditionally have your own foreign policy, too.
While it’s not the glass ceiling she hoped to break,
New York has never had a woman mayor.
Isn’t it past time for that to change?"

Ten Senate Democrats Join Republicans to Condemn Anti-Israel UN Resolution - Breitbart

Ten Senate Democrats Join Republicans to Condemn Anti-Israel UN Resolution - Breitbart:

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and incoming Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are among 21 senators who have signed onto legislation that rejects the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334, which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”"